Breakaway
So, I'm going to do something that I wasn't planning on doing. I didn't start out on this journey with this thought in mind. But once you're on the road you just can't seem to stop sometimes, so here are a few things that my deliverer has been revealing to me. In case you haven't already figured it out, I am a Christian, and I truly love seeking after Him and His will for my life. I also am very big into philosophy, politics, and theology. I'm no expert in them, and any claim that you might have heard is not my own. So here's a quick disclaimer:
My name is David. I am not perfect, I am a fallen creature who was once bound by my sin nature. Christ though has called me His own so that I might seek after Him. Even though I am Christ's I still sin and I am dealing with sin. My sins include sexual temptations, lack of discipline, and a desire to be perfect. I do not know everything, and I don't claim to be right. I do however desire to talk to people about their opinion and share my own when they are willing to listen.
Now that that's out of the way, let me bring in some interesting things that the Lord has been revealing to me. God has been since has taken me to Proverbs to understand knowledge and wisdom and how they should be treated.
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline." Proverbs 1:7
God lays it right there out in the open, that fearing the Lord, and making yourself humble before Him is what leads to true knowledge. Solomon is also saying, that fools hate wisdom and discipline. The verse basically speaks for itself.
"How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge" Proverbs 1:22
WOW That one is a hard one to swallow. Even for myself. God has put me into this curriculum that is super hard for me. And there are times I HATE it with a passion. Yet that makes me a fool, for as it was just said: "Fools hate knowledge” In America today, too many students are just wanting enough to get by. We have become, the TV-Microwave generation. Microwave gives you everything instantly, and TV shows change every few seconds that we have come to believe that patience is no longer needed in today's world. How wrong we are. God wants us to be still before Him just like Mary when Martha was preparing that dinner for Christ. Another point that we need to realize in this verse is that “Simple ones love their simple ways.” Just like my pastor Richard the other day said: “Frankly, I’m not sure the American church has the will to win the fight. For the past 50 years, we’ve been in retreat. We’ve apologized for our faith; we’ve acted as if we couldn’t compete in the arena of ideas – scientific or otherwise. We’ve compromised our theology, virtually admitting that like the unbelieving world, we don’t believe whole chunks of the Bible ourselves because we’ve been too lazy to learn how to defend its truths. No, many of us don’t like messages on fighting because we haven’t been willing to fight. To do so would require something of us – courage and hard work. We’d rather hear sweet little messages about love & peace & prosperity. Yet because of our cowardice and our laziness, our world is sinking ever deeper into moral and spiritual chaos.”
Well here it is. I will not take it anymore. I will not take people bashing me for my Biblically based beliefs. I am tired of the retreat that our church has been under, and I’m ANGERED by the discord in the church. The “let’s just get by” mentality. I don’t care what you think about what I have just said but here is what my Bible says:
The FOOL hates knowledge
The SIMPLE ones love SIMPLE ways
Knowledge begins with fear of the Lord.
You think about that one for a little while. I have already made my decision. I will follow after Christ regardless of what friends I may loose and feelings I might hurt. I have been doing this for awhile, and I will continue to: BREAKAWAY.
My name is David. I am not perfect, I am a fallen creature who was once bound by my sin nature. Christ though has called me His own so that I might seek after Him. Even though I am Christ's I still sin and I am dealing with sin. My sins include sexual temptations, lack of discipline, and a desire to be perfect. I do not know everything, and I don't claim to be right. I do however desire to talk to people about their opinion and share my own when they are willing to listen.
Now that that's out of the way, let me bring in some interesting things that the Lord has been revealing to me. God has been since has taken me to Proverbs to understand knowledge and wisdom and how they should be treated.
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline." Proverbs 1:7
God lays it right there out in the open, that fearing the Lord, and making yourself humble before Him is what leads to true knowledge. Solomon is also saying, that fools hate wisdom and discipline. The verse basically speaks for itself.
"How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge" Proverbs 1:22
WOW That one is a hard one to swallow. Even for myself. God has put me into this curriculum that is super hard for me. And there are times I HATE it with a passion. Yet that makes me a fool, for as it was just said: "Fools hate knowledge” In America today, too many students are just wanting enough to get by. We have become, the TV-Microwave generation. Microwave gives you everything instantly, and TV shows change every few seconds that we have come to believe that patience is no longer needed in today's world. How wrong we are. God wants us to be still before Him just like Mary when Martha was preparing that dinner for Christ. Another point that we need to realize in this verse is that “Simple ones love their simple ways.” Just like my pastor Richard the other day said: “Frankly, I’m not sure the American church has the will to win the fight. For the past 50 years, we’ve been in retreat. We’ve apologized for our faith; we’ve acted as if we couldn’t compete in the arena of ideas – scientific or otherwise. We’ve compromised our theology, virtually admitting that like the unbelieving world, we don’t believe whole chunks of the Bible ourselves because we’ve been too lazy to learn how to defend its truths. No, many of us don’t like messages on fighting because we haven’t been willing to fight. To do so would require something of us – courage and hard work. We’d rather hear sweet little messages about love & peace & prosperity. Yet because of our cowardice and our laziness, our world is sinking ever deeper into moral and spiritual chaos.”
Well here it is. I will not take it anymore. I will not take people bashing me for my Biblically based beliefs. I am tired of the retreat that our church has been under, and I’m ANGERED by the discord in the church. The “let’s just get by” mentality. I don’t care what you think about what I have just said but here is what my Bible says:
The FOOL hates knowledge
The SIMPLE ones love SIMPLE ways
Knowledge begins with fear of the Lord.
You think about that one for a little while. I have already made my decision. I will follow after Christ regardless of what friends I may loose and feelings I might hurt. I have been doing this for awhile, and I will continue to: BREAKAWAY.
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3/4/05 4:01 PMI'm not a FOOL, because #1 I never said I Hate Knowledge, that's one fact you should work on, I don't hate knowledge, I just don't like it at 9:00 in the morning, when we are trying to do a lesson, and no one understands what in the WORLD you're talking about, because you are obviously a step ahead of everyone else. We all sit there with blank faces, because we don't understand what in the world you're saying. Think about it, if you were a 7th grader, and someone started talking theology to you, you'd be like...go away, i don't understand. so look at it from THAT perspective. I have a pretty simple mind, and excuse me for that. I'm sorry that my vocabulary isn't as big as yours, but I don't need to prove my brain to you. And...just because I don't have what you call "knowledge" doesn't mean that I don't fear the Lord. So you can "think about" that for a little while. I think if our whole class + agrees that you don't need to be so in depth in sunday school, that maybe it's a sign that we don't understand. It's great that you know all this, and that you're learning, cause someone's got to, but...we obviously don't get it. So...that's my piece.
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